What's inside the Red Fort?

For our second outing, we decided to take the children on Delhi’ s brand new metro. Before facing the fury of a Sunday afternoon crowd, we split the children in 3 groups and gave them instructions.

The big ones:Sunil, Suman, Asif, Suraj, were given our driver Bahadur as supervisor. They quickly managed to escape him and ran free, obviously having fun, especially with the escalators.

The medium ones :Shyamu, Ramu, Afrez, Ifrez, supervised by Sidhu and our volunteer Revati. Afrez and Ifrez stuck to Sidhu and asked a lot of questions, most of the time at the least convenient moment to start a conversation, whilst Shyamu and Ramu found that the metro was not so different from the jungle of Jharkhand.

The small ones :Lokesh, Kishan, Sameer, Rajesh were supervised by Pascal. They formed a compact commando squad/unit, adopting the ’tortoise position’ as devised by the Roman army.

We reached the Red Fort. Lots of stories to tell and to invent, with kings, queens, enemies and ghosts.